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Costa Rica Extradites Former Minister to US in Historic First

Celso Gamboa, a 49-year-old former Supreme Court justice and cabinet minister, was placed in handcuffs at Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose on Friday and loaded onto a Texas-bound plane. He wasn't alone. Edwin Lopez Vega, an alleged drug trafficker known as "Pecho de Rata", "Rat's Chest", sat beside him. Together they became the first Costa Rican citizens ever extradited to the United States. The scene at the airport marked the c…
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